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Single Mother, 1966
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I make a big picture, primary colors: the social workers come like kindergarten teachers and ask me to explain it, I do, they say, You don’t need to be here. —Where should I be? * * * On the mental floor I painted a picture of the children Irreducible altered the missing children but it was me missing. Chewing up the mirror the mother was not someone else. * * * To the half-way house. Protestant. I made maple syrup. My friend moved in with my husband and children. The Methodist minister: How many men do you have in your life. —Sir none. Single Mother, 1966 No money —the baby birds’ huge mouths the cradle of the real life 271 huger than themselves —and God making words words Abortion Child I thought: You live somewhere deeper than the well I live down in. Deeper than anything from me or him. No but it took me time to see you, thirty earth years. 3. To Ireland By the Granary River the landlord says, “All these things— the lambing—the commonage— are good—yes—but they are not God.” Looking out over us with a white and English eye. 272 door in the mountain ...